t2.2xlarge vs r5b.2xlarge

Instance Typet2.2xlarger5b.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory optimized
DetailsWebsites / web apps, dev environments, build servers, code repositories, microservices, test/staging, and business apps.

t – Burstable performance
2 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
High-performance databases, data mining/analysis, in-memory databases, distributed large-scale caches, real-time processing apps for unstructured big data, Hadoop/Spark clusters, and other enterprise apps.

r – RAM / memory optimized
5 – Generation
b – EBS optimized
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory32 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon FamilyIntel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz3.1 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizest2.2xlarge, t2.large, t2.medium, t2.micro, t2.nano, t2.small, t2.xlarger5b.12xlarge, r5b.16xlarge, r5b.24xlarge, r5b.2xlarge, r5b.4xlarge, r5b.8xlarge, r5b.large, r5b.metal, r5b.xlarge
Generationst2.2xlarge, t3.2xlarger5b.2xlarge, r8ib.2xlarge
Variantsr5.2xlarge, r5a.2xlarge, r5ad.2xlarge, r5d.2xlarge, r5dn.2xlarge, r5n.2xlarge
SageMakerml.t2.2xlarge
RDSdb.t2.2xlargedb.r5b.2xlarge, db.r5b.2xlarge.tpc1.mem2x, db.r5b.2xlarge.tpc2.mem4x, db.r5b.2xlarge.tpc2.mem8x
Free Tiernono
Burstableyesno
Hibernationyesno
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedunsupporteddefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 128000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance21667 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance43333 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceModerateUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingnoyes
Max Interfaces34
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportunsupportedrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.58x

Regional Prices

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t2.2xlarge
r5b.2xlarge
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.39680.6318
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.46720.7240
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.46720.9480
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.4864n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.4864n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.5952n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.40320.6520
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.40960.6680
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.42240.7000
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.42240.7000
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.42880.7120
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.43520.7120
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.44160.7120
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.46080.7240
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.37120.5960
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.37120.5960
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.37120.5960
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